What is "berline"

Usage examples of "berline".

She had endured the long journey from London with her usual stoicism, though the ancient berline, oldest and most practical of Spencer's carriages, was neither swift nor comfortable.

Dalziel perched in the berline's driver's box, so wrapped up in scarves, hat, and greatcoat that only his eyes were visible.

She took a steaming tankard from Armstrong, who was to ride at the back of the berline, and offered it to Eden.

Her body came to rest amid blankets meant to cushion the berline's hard seats, and more were tucked around her.

Eden had very little sense of movement, anything beyond the suffocating universe of the berline's interior.

Classic car show in East Potomac Park, where Pitt shows his Pierce-Arrow Berline with matching 1936 PierceAffow Travelodge house trailer.

L'intera zona era praticamente deserta, a parte due berline e un furgone nero che ci stavano aspettando.

Prendemmo una delle berline dell'FBI e Betsey si lasciò alle spalle Singer Island.

The Chevalier de Chabrillane — who in reality occupied towards the Marquis a position akin to that of gentleman-in-waiting — sat opposite to him in the enormous travelling berline.

You will bring back with you the large berline, the smaller travelling coach, and a light chaise for my Lord Rupert’s baggage.

The entire population of Le Dennier turned out to see the passing of this cavalcade, and marvelled at the chaise piled high with baggage, at the great berline with his Grace’s arms blazoned on the door, and at the two smaller coaches that followed it.

There we left him then in the dim-lit London drawing-room, beside himself with pity for this shallow and most artificial woman, while without, at the edge of the Piccadilly curb, there stood the high dark berline ready to start him upon that long journey which was to end in his chase of the French fleet over seven thousand miles of ocean, his meeting with it, his victory, which confined Napoleon’s ambition for ever to the land, and his death, coming, as I would it might come to all of us, at the crowning moment of his life.

Behind him stood a gleaming, dark blue 1936 Pierce Arrow berline (sedan body with a divider window) that was hitched to a 1936 Pierce Arrow Travelodge house trailer painted a matching color.

After fifteen minutes of intense study, they shook his hand and moved off to the next car in his class, a 1933 Lincoln V12 Berline.

Gré now,” said the Vicomtesse, “the thatched houses of the little village on either side of the high-road, the honest, red-faced peasants courtesying in their doorways at our berline, the brick wall of the park, the iron gates beside the lodge, the long avenue of poplars, the deer feeding in the beechwood, the bridge over the shining stream and the long, weather-beaten château beyond it.